OK... here's one for you.

I had a carbon with a bad hard drive. I found a 1GB replacement cheap which has true IDE compatibility and was cheap. (I'm fixing this one for my 7 year old daughter and she has no need for more than 1GB). Anyway, Got it in and installed firmware and everything is fine except...

It will not save any settings and defaults to Auto transfer and MTP and I HATE MTP transfer mode. I can go into the settings and change it to MSC and when I turn the unit off, it goes right back to the defaults. I can set the EQ or any other settings and it resets all of them once it goes off. I cannot figure a way to force it to MSC mode. Should I have done anything special to the CF card prior to putting it in the player and formatting it within the player?